Surname Peranec in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Peranec families are Croats (from Koprivnica area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and in Koprivnica area. In Kosovečko in Zlatar area every sixth inhabitant had the family name Peranec.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Peranec live in Croatia today, in 11 households. There were 40 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number halved.
They are only located in four Croatian cities and two other places, mostly in Zagreb (<5), Kotoriba in Prelog area (<5), Donja Dubrava in Koprivnica area (<5), Varazdin (<5), and in Samobor (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Peranec is present in two countries on two continents.

Characteristic first names

Ivan Peranec, Đuro Peranec, Mario Peranec, Margita Peranec, Božidar Peranec, Dragica Peranec, Mirko Peranec, Marko Peranec, Vladimir Peranec, Rudolf Peranec, Zdravko Peranec, Bernardica Peranec, Gordan Peranec, Rosalia Peranec, Barica Peranec, Barbara Peranec, Sija Peranec, Ladislav Peranec, Terezija Peranec

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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